Up to 100 refugees in need of urgent protection in Syria will be resettled in New Zealand, the government announced here Tuesday. Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse said the humanitarian situation in Syria was deteriorating by the day and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had...

With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the frontline, Syria's civil war is also playing out in...

Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation. The talks between Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came after...

Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba is to visit Moscow on Tuesday at the invitation of Russian authorities, AFP said.   "Mr. Jarba has accepted the Russian invitation and will go to Moscow on February 4," Monzer Aqbiq, head advisor to the leader of the Syrian...